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    Describe the world you come from; for example‚ your family‚ clubs‚ school‚ community‚ city‚ or town. How has that world shaped your dreams and aspirations?(*) (200-250 words) Growing up in an immigrant Russian Jewish family resembles a chess tournament. All pieces have their precise position‚ movements and strategies; all my family members work together to achieve an ultimate goal of making it in this wonderful county. This puts enormous pressure on me since I am the oldest child‚ holding the

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    because if life was eternal it would have no meaning. Although‚ sometimes it does seem appealing in the regard that you’d have more time to do whatever it is you want without worry. Life would have no time constraints; it would just be a concept at that point. “Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night” is centered around fighting against death until you can’t anymore. I personally feel the writer was resentful toward death as the synopsis says it was originally addressed to his dying father (Thomas). I haven’t

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    Death Be Not Proud Death be not proud is a poem by John Donne where he focuses on presenting an argument against the power of death. Using personification by Speaking to/about death as if it was a person‚ John Donne addresses death by warning it from its pride and “mighty and dreadful” force (line 2). He starts his argument by telling death that those he kills do not die‚ and that doesn’t even apply to the poet himself. In Donne’s point of view in this poem‚ Death brings “Much Pleasure”

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    Analysis of a Poem “Death‚ be not proud” The poem‚ “Death‚ be not proud‚” dramatizes how death‚ yet as harmful and scary as can be‚ may also be the most harmless thing in the world. The speaker starts off by stating‚ “Death‚ be not proud for though have called the Mighty and dreadful‚ for thou art not so” (1-2). One man‚ mocking death‚ whether it be a person or a religious figure‚ and stating that even though death may take anything and everything at any moment‚ it still brings him no harm; “Die

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    PROUD TO BE AN INDIAN It’s a pleasant and a cold morning in India. The cold breeze makes the body cold. Saloni is a Punjabi girl whose ambition is to become a journalist. She likes to write poems and journals. She goes to Madras to do her higher studies. There she meets a guy‚ unexpectedly he is her relative named as Rajesh who is one of the most intelligent police officers in India. They both knew each other from their childhood. They had a crush on each other in their tender age itself but they

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    The achievements of the 1930s are often overshadowed by the loss and despair felt during the Great Depression and beginning of World War 2. It was a decade mired in loss‚ hopelessness‚ and destitution‚ but not all areas of life suffered from the temporary relapse the economy had fallen into. These ten momentous years were also a time of innovation and prosperity for the world of entertainment‚ and their influence can still be seen today. Where poverty and boredom were found‚ creativity and ingenuity

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    The Achievement of Desire by Richard Rodriguez In Richard Rodriguez The Achievement of desire‚ he had grown up in a minority group / family being a Mexican-American ‚ who on entering school was barely able to speak English ‚ but then mastered the art of speaking English that one day his teacher had remarked that he was losing all traces of a Spanish accent. He considered himself to be success even to become known as a “scholar boy” and additionally prized student‚ his earlier teachers the nuns

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    looked back down and there she was. The old lady that put me in here. She was at least 6’6" tall‚ with long‚ crazy hair‚ big‚ round eyes‚ with and fat‚ long nose‚ and really pointy ears. She told me to come out. I said "no!" "What do you want from me and why are you doing this to me?" I

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    What attribute of your personality are you most proud of‚ and how has it impacted your life so far? This could be your creativity‚ effective leadership‚ sense of humor‚ integrity‚ or anything else you’d like to tell us about. (*) (200-250 words) A “Personality”‚ to me‚ is the outcome of the behavioral features controlling a person’s mental and physical abilities. Thus‚ the attributes of a personality are its abilities and its behaviors and attitudes. Objectively‚ the inquiry as I understand it

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    ‘Death be not proud’ – Sonnet X (Holy Sonnets by John Donne) Donne’s dilemma – ‘caught between the active vocation of Catholicism and the predestination of Calvinism’. What can one do‚ if anything‚ to influence God’s final judgement? (Helen Wilcox). Context – religious‚ historical Biblical theme – (Corinthians 1.15.55) Paul – after a passage discussing Christ’s victory over death – ‘O death‚ where is thy sting? Oh grave‚ where is thy victory?’ Donne’s ‘Meditation xvii’ – Devotions upon Emergent

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